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[mybeautifuldarktwisteddfantasy]

Getting Lost (2024) A Documentary celebrating the global television phenomenon LOST for its 20th Anniversary. Interview w/ Naveen William Sidney Andrews

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STAR TREK (2009) dir. JJ Abrams

[artist-issues]

I just NEED everyone to agree with me that Rey's parents are nobody. We should all agree about that. We should collectively, as an audience, say, "clearly the best idea was to have Kylo Ren be a dynastic heir to the major legends of the Force who wants to throw off his family's shadow, while his rival is nobody from nowhere who wants to belong--so we're going to stick with that."

And then, what should have happened is, Rey can finish her story by being able to say, "My parents might have abandoned me, but that doesn't mean I'm worthless." And eventually Kylo Ren can say, "My family might have been powerful, but I don't have to be," and all those other things that they can bounce off of each other as great foils.

It can keep being a good story about accepting past failures and choosing to grow beyond them.

Let's just all collectively ignore Rey Skypatine because of how silly that was. I mean. If they can just ignore the setups in the previous movie, we can ignore their choices in the conclusion. Right?? Right? Tell me I'm right

[virtie333]

RIP Gary Fisher

I bet your mom is happy to see you!

[facts-i-just-made-up]

are “Star Wars fan” and “Star Trek fan” mutually exclusive events?

No, but installing a Star Wars fan in a Star Trek air conditioning unit will result in violent winds.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I hate to say it, but Minecraft operates very much the same way as a JJ Abrams mystery box. I'm not talking about the Minecraft movie, I mean the game itself. The developers suggest a ton of deep lore questions that they have zero interest in ever actually answering, because Mystery Box, speculating at the possibilties is more fun than knowing for sure!

Who dug the abandoned mineshafts? Dunno, doesn't matter. Who built the strongholds? Dunno, doesn't matter. Do the endermen worship the dragon? Will the egg ever hatch? Who captained the flying ships with the elytra? What happened to the ancient cities in the deep dark? What is sculk and what is the Warden wardening over? Where did ancient debris come from? Who built the nether fortresses? Who built the bastions, how long ago, and why are they now just crumbling remnants? Why are there ruined nether portals strewn across the overworld? Jungle temples? Desert temples? Trail ruins? Ocean monuments? Sunken ships? Buried treasure? Dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, none of it matters at all!

So many hints towards multiple different ancient civilizations, and all of it's just set dressing. They all exist for the Doylist reason of introducing, teaching, and encouraging the use of new game mechanics, but there are no Watsonian explanations and there likely never will be. Why is there a portal frame in the ancient city? Because it looks cool and the redstone underneath it lets new players know that the glowing dust they've been collecting has logical functionality (and even that's just a rudimentary hint; the game has no tutorials, no built-in instructions, everything important is learned via the Wiki).

I love Minecraft, it's my favorite video game of all time, but I think I play it for a very different reason than most people.

[fantastic-nonsense]

people trying to explain away all of the ways in which The Last Jedi ignored or actively threw away various pieces of plot set-up in The Force Awakens never cease to amaze me because like...what do you mean the map that the entire plot of TFA revolves around was always meant to be "just" an Unknown Regions star chart that happened to have Luke's exact route to the first Jedi Temple on it?

Like that's not what the movie says! That's some explanation someone else came up with to explain it after the fact because TLJ chose not to follow TFA's set up with the map!

The Force Awakens says there's a map "to Luke." Not to the Temple, not to Ahch-to. To Luke. Han says "the people who knew him best" (aka, himself and Leia, and possibly Kylo depending on how he learned the information and started pursuing Luke himself via downloading the old Imperial Archives' map database) think he went looking for the First Jedi Temple and that's probably where the map leads to, but the map itself (held by R2, in powered-down mode to protect people from getting it until the time was right, with the missing piece found by Lor San Tekka and held by BB-8 throughout the movie) is canonically repeatedly referred to as "the map to Skywalker." The movie, script, and novelization all but outright state that the map is Luke's map and Luke's specific route to wherever the hell he ended up.

Rian turning around in TLJ and having Luke say that he "came to Ahch-to to die" and "never wanted anyone to follow him here" is nonsense that directly contradicts the entire plot of TFA, and then everyone after him had to come up with something to write around it and explain why we spent an entire movie looking for a map that Luke left behind and led straight to him if he never wanted to be found.

[joe-spookyy]

thinking about the star trek beastie boys paradox. the use of the hit song sabotage by the beastie boys in star trek (2009) raises many questions that go completely unanswered in the rest of the series. since the song is part of the scene and is being not only heard but intentionally played by captain kirk, this means that sabotage exists in the star trek universe. if this song exists, it implies that the remainder of the band’s discography also exists. but the issue here is that in several beastie boys songs, they directly reference star trek and its characters. examples include in intergalactic, where they mention “a pinch on the neck from mr spock”, or in the brouhaha, where they say “this is bones mccoy on a line to sulu.” the fact that captain kirk himself is listening to the beastie boys in this film and again, to one of their lesser known songs (a REMIX of body movin ON VINYL) in the sequel, gives the viewer an idea that he’s a pretty big fan of their music. does kirk simply not notice the fact that they’re literally talking about his friends and coworkers? they literally say HIS name in b boy bouillabaisse: stop that train. or am i meant to believe that he’s conveniently not heard some of their most popular music? intergalactic is their third top song on spotify. there’s no way he hasn’t heard it. is he just really really oblivious? or are the beastie boys just some sort of prophetic gods in this universe? director jj abrams, i applaud your music choices but by making the beastie boys canon in star trek you have opened up a whole can of worms and i don’t intend on letting you rest until you solve this mystery for me. WHAT IS THE TRUTH!

[theglenaissance]

*screeching*

[batmananimated]

Batman: Caped Crusader official trailer. All episodes out on August 1st, on Prime Video

[alwaysshipping1]

Blast from the past : Quest Love's July 2024 game night

The intersection of so many worlds!

[missathlete31]

This doesn’t surprise me at all lol

Glen forever with that cute but awkward nerdy energy.

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STAR TREK (2009) dir. JJ Abrams

[trek-tracks]

Got this ad for a drag show in town and--

I sincerely hope Vajayjay Abrams' pasties somehow simulate lens flare

[vrtlworld]

Gracie Abrams for Cosmopolitan

[inquisitor-apologist]

Every time I remember this I go incandescent with rage. Like, yeah, Jeffrey, that’s the fundamentals of storytelling right there. What do you MEAN you forgot a plan????